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In the "Confederate Railroad Markings" section of the New Dietz Catalog and Handbook is the notation "AFTON (not seen)." Here are two examples of this marking for the record.
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Figure 1 above is a pair of the 5c Green Lithograph issue with a full strike of the postmark dated 10 FEB (1862). Figure 2 below is an 1864 cover bearing a copy of the 10c Blue Type I AD engraved issue postmarked MAR 18 and addressed to Rock Fish Depot NC. (Figure 2 Courtesy Galen D. Harrision.)
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Afton is in Nelson County a few miles southeast of Waynesboro, Virginia. The 1868 Traveler's Official Rail Way Guide to the US and Canada, however, does not show Afton as a stop on the Virginia Central Railroad. Nor is the town shown on the map of "The Railways of the Confederate States as of June 1861" or on any relevant maps within The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War. The Virginia Postal History Society Virginia Postal Markings and Postmasters - Colonial to 1865 lists prewar and Confederate era manuscript markings for Afton. The Confederate markings date from the Summer and Fall of 1862. An April 1864 strike of the small CDS pictured here is listed inder Virginia Central RR. Are there any more out there?